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Nnecka Ifemesia, a Queens woman who spent six months in immigration detention.
Reporter Batya Ungar-Sargon, immigration lawyer Talia Peleg and professional signer (and one-time immigration detainee) Nnecka Ifemesia appeared on the Brian Lehrer Show to discuss the City Limits series “On the Border of Justice.”
The U.S. debate about immigration moves in broad strokes: images of Syrian refugees massing at Europe’s borders, language about threats and dreams. For foreign-born people in New York, life rarely matches the rhetoric. It’s about bending visa rules to make life possible, pride in a homeland they can’t visit, and fast food that provides a link to the past.
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